The computer system validation consulting industry is growing as domestic GMP companies' overseas exports or advancements increase, and computer system validation has been mandatory in Korea since the 2010s, but domestic CSV consulting companies are small in size and have a short history, revealing many shortcomings in terms of service quality and customer satisfaction when conducting consulting. Research related to consulting has been mainly focused on management consulting and IT consulting, and research related to computer system validation is very insufficient. This study confirmed the effect of consultant competency and service quality on consulting performance, customer satisfaction, and intention to renew contract when performing computer system validation through empirical research on food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and medical device companies, which are representative companies in the GMP industry. As a result, it was confirmed that consultant competency and service quality had a significant effect on consulting performance, customer satisfaction, and intention to renew contract. In addition, it was confirmed that the reputation and expertise of consulting companies had a moderating effect on the relationship between consultant competency and consulting performance.

본 연구는 국내 풋살장의 효율적인 운영 전략을 위한 기초자료를 제공하기 위해 선택속성이 고 객만족 및 참여의도에 어떠한 영향력이 있는지를 검증하고자 했다. 따라서 국내 풋살장을 이용한 사람들을 표본으로 선정했으며, 편의표본 추출방법을 활용했다. 최종분석은 271부의 자료를 활용했다. 자료처리는 SPSS(ver. 21.0) 프로그램으로 빈도분석, 요인분석 및 신뢰도 분석, 상관분석, 단순 및 다중회귀분석을 실시 했다. 연구결과는 첫째, 국내 풋살장 선택속성은 서비스, 편의성, 가격, 시설 순으로 고객만족에 유의한 영 향이 있었다. 둘째, 고객만족이 참여의도에 유의한 영향이 있었다. 셋째, 선택속성은 시설, 서비스, 편의성, 가격 순으로 참여의도에 유의한 영향이 있었다. 이상의 결과들을 종합해보면 국내 풋살장들은 소비자들이 보다 편리하고 안전하게 풋살 경기를 즐길 수 있는 시설과 서비스를 제공할 필요가 있을 것으로 판단된다.

전기자동차의 빠른 확산은 지구온난화와 자연재해 대응을 위해 국제적으로 중요한 과제이다. 대중화를 위해 “캐즘(Chasm) 극복”은 필수적이나, 선행연구들은 전기차 초기시장 분석이 대부분이며 캐즘 단계의 연구는 다소 제한적이다. 본 연구는 전기차 초기 단계를 벗어나는 국내시장에서 소비자의 전기차 구매 주요 저해 요인과, 이에 영향을 주는 소비자의 인구통계학적 특성 및 자동차 관련 경험을 설문과 통계 기법을 통해 심층 분석하였다. 연구 결과, 한국 전기차 시장은 캐즘 전 단계로 판단되며, 전기차의 “기술에 대한 낮은 신뢰성”, “경제성에 대한 의문”, “충전-운전 불편성”이 전기차의 주요 수용 저해 요인으로 확인되었다. 지역에 따른 고속/완속 충전 인프라의 적절한 구축, 교육과 홍보를 통한 전기차의 인식개선, 전기차 수용에 우호적인 얼리어답터(Early adopter)의 전기차 수용 촉진은 캐즘을 극복하는 과정에서 중요한 역할을 할 것으로 판단된다.

한국형아유르베다 성격유형과 의류 구매만족과 어떤 관계가 있는지를 분석함으로써 성격특성을 고려한 마케팅 전략에 대해 논의하는 것이다. 본 연구의 자료는 수도권 여성 20대 이상을 대상으로 다음과 같은 통계 분석을 실시하였다. 첫째, 조사대상자의 일반적 특성을 파악하기 위해 빈 도분석을 실시하였고, 둘째, 측정도구의 타당성 분석을 위해 탐색적 요인 분석을 실시하였다. 또한 Cronbach's α 계수를 이용하여 요인을 구성 하는 항목들의 신뢰도를 분석하였다. 셋째, 한국형 아유르베다 기본심리 유형에 대해 알아보고, 조사대상자의 일반적 특성에 따라 차이가 있는지 파악하기 위해 교차분석을 실시하였다. 넷째, 한국형 아유르베다 기본심 리유형에 따라 고객만족에 차이가 있는지를 알아보기 위하여 일원변량분 석(one-way ANOVA) 및 Scheffe의 사후검정을 실시하였다. 본 연구는 한국형아유르베다 기본심리유형과 고객만족의 관계에서는, 전반적인 고 객만족과 하위요인별 서비스만족에 있어서도 카파형(K)이 상대적으로 높 은 것을 알 수 있었지만, 품질만족에 있어서는 통계적으로 유의미한 차 이가 나타나지 않았다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

본 연구는 컨설턴트의 셀프리더십이 자기효능감과 직무만족을 통해 고객지향성에 미치는 영향에 대한 연구로, 컨설턴트의 자기효능감과 직무만족이 컨설턴트의 고객지향성에 미치는 매개효과를 분석하였으 며, 이를 위해 SPSS PROCESS macro 모델 6인 직렬 다중매개모델을 활용하였다. 최근 2년 이내 2건 이상의 컨설팅 수행실적이 있는 컨설턴트 240명을 대상으로 2021년 10월 26일부터 11월 10일까지 웹 설문조사를 하였으며, 총 172부의 설문지를 회수하여 분석에 사용하였다. 연구결과를 정리하면 다음과 같다. 셀프리더십의 구성요소인 행동지향 전략, 자연보상 전략, 건설적 사 고 전략은 자기효능감과 직무만족에 긍정적인 영향을 미치고, 고객지향성에도 긍정적인 영향을 미친다. 다만, 건설적 사고 전략은 고객지향성에 유의한 영향을 미치지 않는다. 자기효능감은 직무만족과 고객지 향성에 긍정적인 영향을 미치고, 직무만족은 고객지향성에 긍정적인 영향을 미친다. 셀프리더십이 자기효능감을 통해 고객지향성에 미치는 영향은 행동지향 전략, 자연보상 전략, 건설적 사고 전략에서 모두 긍정적인 영향을 미친다. 셀프리더십이 직무만족을 통해 고객지향성에 미치는 영향 도 행동지향 전략, 자연보상 전략, 건설적 사고 전략에서 모두 긍정적인 영향을 미친다. 그러나, 셀프리더 십이 자기효능감에 이어 직무만족을 통해 고객지향성에 미치는 영향은 건설적 사고 전략만 긍정적인 영 향을 미친다. 셀프리더십이 고객지향성에 미친 직접효과와 간접효과는 셀프리더십의 구성요소에 따라 그 크기에 차 이가 있다. 행동지향 전략은 직접효과가 간접효과보다 더 크고, 자연보상 전략은 직접효과와 간접효과의 크기가 비슷한 수준이고, 건설적 사고 전략은 직접효과보다 간접효과가 크다. 행동지향 전략은 고객지향 성에 직접 영향을 미치고, 건설적 사고 전략은 자기효능감 등을 통해서 고객지향성에 상대적으로 많은 영향을 미친다. 건설적 사고 전략이 자기효능감으로 이어지고 나아가 직무만족을 통해 고객지향성으로 이어진다는 것은 흥미로운 발견이다.

This study investigated the relationship between service quality factors, customer satisfaction, and reuse intention based on the degree of attachment to companion animals felt by caregivers when using dog grooming services. An online and offline survey with caregivers experienced in dog grooming services were conducted, and 304 responses were analyzed using SPSS 26.0 Statistics Program. The analysis revealed the following. First, sub-factors of dog grooming service quality: empathy, assurance, tangibles, and reliability, significantly affect customer satisfaction. Second, customers satisfaction with dog grooming services significantly affects their reuse intention. Third, only reliability demonstrates a moderating effect on attachment to companion dogs in influencing the relationship between customer satisfaction and service quality. These findings that service quality management is necessary to improve the business performance of dog-grooming services. Particularly, this study is meaningful in presenting the direction of service marketing centered on trust, as more guardians consider companion dogs as family.

This study supplements the literature by determining how restaurant innovativeness is linked to customer advocacy as well as considering self-image congruity as mediator of this relationship. A questionnaire survey of 385 restaurant customers was conducted in Taiwan. The results indicated that restaurant innovativeness is positively related to customers’ self-image congruity and customer advocacy. Customers’ self-image congruity is positively associated with customer advocacy. In addition, self-image congruity mediates the relationship between restaurant innovativeness and customer advocacy. The research contributes to literature by extend the relationships between restaurant innovativeness, self-image congruity, and customer advocacy. Restaurant managers should adopt approaches (e.g. innovativeness-related activities) for enhancing self-image congruity in customers.

We are living in a world that is increasingly digital and undergoing dramatic changes as a result. In particular for luxury fashion, growing numbers of online customers as well as fast changing business environment, luxury retailers face the challenge of differentiating themselves by offering a better online customer experience (Chen et al. 2021). By doing so, luxury fashion retailers are increasingly deploying chatbots in their service encounters to enhance customer experience (Roy & Naidoo, 2021). Chatbots are powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Hoyer et al. 2020) and are an example of AI robot that can provide human-computer interactions on a retail website (Lee et al. 2017). Intended to enhance the online customer experience, chatbots have the potential to provide a better understanding of the product performance, enable efficient use of customer time, and help build crucial customer relationships (Rese et al. 2020; Wilson-Nash et al. 2020; Xu et al. 2022). Therefore, chatbots’ potential has been highly valued by fashion retail industry and academia (Jiang et al. 2022).

Previous studies offered inconsistent empirical results for the influence of customer participation on service satisfaction. One possible explanation for this inconsistency is that existing conceptualizations of customer participation do not clearly differentiate the distinct roles of customer participation in service. To address this gap, Dong and Sivakumar (2015) have proposed an updated classification for customer participation based on “output specificity,” which refers to the degree to that the nature of the output is influenced by the person who provides the resource. The output of the customer participation can either be “specific” or “generic”. The “specific output” is defined as the expected service outcome can be idiosyncratic depending on whether the service is provided by the customer or the employee. In contrast, “generic output” refers to expected service outcome is well defined regardless of whether it is delivered by the service provider or the customer. How output specificity of customer participation influences service satisfaction still lacks of empirical examination.

Innovative companies after the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic are undergoing significant changes: from new trends in the markets to the growth of remote work in the digital environment. At any stage of development, innovative companies need an adaptive marketing approach to the implementation of the planned strategy. Marketing solutions to the problems of a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment (VUCA) in 2023 can rightfully be considered an emergency aid to innovative transformations in emerging markets. The triad “market orientation – innovation – performance” chain has been extended to various innovation types– from technological and product innovation to innovation orientation and capability. Moreover, the market orientation research agenda has, during last 10 years, highlighted customer orientation as a key component of market orientation that drives innovative activities.

Customer loyalty is tested every day in the retail sector and the past years have been challenging for retailers to keep their existing, loyal customers. Covid-19 outbreak caused significant changes in consumers’ purchasing behavior because during the pandemic, consumers were forced to adapt new patterns of shopping which is likely to reflect also in customer loyalty. To better understand the temporal development of customer loyalty, we investigate how cognitive, affective, and social drivers of loyalty differ between 10,044 Trustpilot reviews before, during and after the Covid-19 pandemic. We investigate customer loyalty in the retail sector using an objective and a novel approach; thus we based this study on user-generated content in the form of online reviews in contrast to the traditional survey-based measures of customer loyalty.

The integration of Live streaming and E-commerce, also known as Live commerce, has been widely used in Asia. The live commerce market in China, which leads the live commerce business, reached 2.36 trillion yuan (about 340 billion dollars) at the end of 2021. While revenue is an important indicator for a company, customer engagement in live commerce, which can acquire potential customers through brand loyalty formation, community building, and information sharing, is also a crucial indicator in consideration of long-term development.

This study investigated the impact of sustainable perceived value (SPV) on fashion consumers. The results revealed that SPV significantly affects customer satisfaction, loyalty, and the positive relationship between satisfaction and loyalty were confirmed, implicating SPV as a valid approach in measuring consumption value of sustainable fashion products.

The subscription model, prominent within the ‘subscription economy’ (SE), is now a popular form of business within many industries. In simple terms, a subscription model entails two parties (customers and firms) entering into an agreement whereby the patron commits to make regular payments to the supplier, who in exchange periodically delivers an agreed bundle of goods and/or services. Although mostly applied within Business-to-Consumer (B2C) markets (e.g. entertainment services, newspapers and media industry, software licences), the subscription model can be found in Business-to-Business (B2B) markets also (e.g. Rolls Royce ‘Power-by-the-hour model’). This unique form of commerce (i.e. committed repeat patronage) creates an alternative relationship between the buyer and seller to other more traditional forms of business.

With the evolution of Artificial intelligence (AI), emotional artificial intelligence service agents (AISA) have become common in service industry. However, how artificial empathy of AISA contributes to customer acceptance remains an open question. This study draws on Anthropomorphism Theory and Customer AI Experience Theory to examine whether and how artificial empathy has influence on customer acceptance of AISA. Evidence from three experiments (N=1057) designed by the Experimental vignette method (EVM) shows that: (1) artificial empathy including perspective-taking, empathic concern and emotional contagion has a positive impact on customer acceptance of AISA (study 1); (2) customer AI experience (emotional experience quality, social experience activation and social experience quality) mediates the relationship between artificial empathy and customer acceptance of AISA (study 2); (3) artificial empathy for hedonic (vs. utilitarian) services leads to a stronger effect on customer acceptance of AISA (study 3). This paper enriches our understanding of artificial empathy and provides practical guidance for practitioners strategically managing AISA services in AI-enabled marketing interactions.

We are living in a world that is increasingly digital and undergoing dramatic changes as a result. In particular for luxury fashion, growing numbers of online customers as well as fast changing business environment, luxury retailers face the challenge of differentiating themselves by offering a better online customer experience (Chen et al. 2021). By doing so, luxury fashion retailers are increasingly deploying chatbots in their service encounters to enhance customer experience (Roy & Naidoo, 2021). Chatbots are powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Hoyer et al. 2020) and are an example of AI robot that can provide human-computer interactions on a retail website (Lee et al. 2017). Intended to enhance the online customer experience, chatbots have the potential to provide a better understanding of the product performance, enable efficient use of customer time, and help build crucial customer relationships (Rese et al. 2020; Wilson-Nash et al. 2020; Xu et al. 2022). Therefore, chatbots’ potential has been highly valued by fashion retail industry and academia (Jiang et al. 2022).

Previous studies offered inconsistent empirical results for the influence of customer participation on service satisfaction. One possible explanation for this inconsistency is that existing conceptualizations of customer participation do not clearly differentiate the distinct roles of customer participation in service. To address this gap, Dong and Sivakumar (2015) have proposed an updated classification for customer participation based on “output specificity,” which refers to the degree to that the nature of the output is influenced by the person who provides the resource. The output of the customer participation can either be “specific” or “generic”. The “specific output” is defined as the expected service outcome can be idiosyncratic depending on whether the service is provided by the customer or the employee. In contrast, “generic output” refers to expected service outcome is well defined regardless of whether it is delivered by the service provider or the customer. How output specificity of customer participation influences service satisfaction still lacks of empirical examination.

Adding new stores close to incumbent franchisees, or franchise encroachment, has been a contentious issue in the marketplace. Prior studies on the encroachment effect focus mainly on the store-level cannibalization, lacking the understanding of customer-level post-encroachment outcomes. The authors investigate individual-level transaction data from a cluster of bakery franchise stores to quantify the franchise encroachment effect at store- and individual-levels with store and customer heterogeneity. Our results show that incumbents experience a decrease in sales, and the extent of the lost sales is attenuated by the distance between incumbent and new stores and the size of incumbents’ product assortment. The individual-level analysis reveals that three customer segments exhibit different post-encroachment shopping behaviors: (1) patronizing incumbents only, (2) patronizing both incumbent and new stores, and (3) completely switching to new stores. While the second segment increases the post-encroachment overall spending, the third segment contributes to both cannibalization to incumbents and higher sales to the franchisor. Our findings offer managerial implications of how to manage franchise encroachment with context-dependency and customer segmentation in terms of maximizing overall franchise performance.

Service encounters increasingly feature AI-powered inputs such as add-ons recommendations or aftercare solutions. These novel forms of customer service, provided by AI rather than humans, can shape customers’ sense of agency throughout the customer journey. Customers find themselves in a form of competitive collaboration with AI, sharing tasks, resources, inputs, and decisions. This research conceptualises and develops a scale to measure shared agency power during customer-AI interactions. Understanding the role of agency in AI- customer interactions is important, as agency represents a source, mechanism, delimiter and effect of a human’s or a machine’s actions. Agency may differ across various service encounters and with it, the type of perceived risks associated with human-AI interactions. Future research may use the shared agency power scale to better understand the nature and impact of customer-AI interactions in a service context on traditional marketing factors.

The costs associated with law enforcement have seen a sharp increase, driven by rising personnel costs and the growing demand for policing services (Gascón, 2010; Urban Institute, 2020). Considerable discussion has arisen about how science can potentially help law enforcement “do more with less”, and some scholars have suggested introducing new crime control technologies to address this problem (e.g., Roach, 2022; Weisburd & Neyroud, 2011). With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, police departments around the world had additional demand, as they were made responsible for overseeing and ensuring compliance with COVID protocols. As a response, some countries (e.g., Singapore and China; Barrett, 2021) resorted to employing service robots either alongside or in place of police officers to assist with COVID-related compliance tasks.